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Patented Aug. 28, 1894.

' MUM-6656 f i UNITED STATES PATENT GEETCE.

FREDERICK E. BLAISDELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR milloinvented certain new and OF ONE-THIRD TO ELMER Z. TAYLOR, OF

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BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 525,128, dated August28, 1894.'

Application led January 28, 1893. Serial No. 460,136.V (No'model.)

`To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK E. BLAIS-` DELL, a citi/zen of the UnitedStates, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have useful Improvements inBottles, of which the following isa' specification, such as will enableothers skilled 1n the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

I t is the custom among bottlers of beer and other beverages, to sellonly the beverageand retain the ownership of the bottle in which' thesame is furnished to the customers, who

vare expected'to return the bottle when empty to the bottler, to `berefilled. But, inasmuch as the bottles used are convenient receptaclesfor holding various liquids, it is found that they are frequentlypermanently retained by those into whose handsthey fall, and the bottler1s consequently compelled to replace all such bottles so retained atgreat inconven-l ience and expense; and the object of my invention is toprovide a bottle of such form that the same will be utterly useless tothe general public, for the reason that the same can only be closed orstopped by the insertion in the throat orifice thereof of a stopper orseal of peculiar form, which can only be lnserted in such bottle by theuse of a costly and cumbersome machine, which vonly .persons engaged inthe bottling business can afford to possess; whereby, such bottles beingof no use to thel persons to whom the contents are sold, the same willinvariably be returned to the bottler when emptied; and this I ac-` complish by means of the peculiar construction of my improved form ofbottle, shown forms of the construction shown in such Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawingsr-The reference letter A designates the neck ofthe bottle, prpjecting inward over the throat orifice or outlet ofwhich, preferably at the extreme outer end thereof, as shown, is aserrated flange or rib consisting of a number of lugs or projections awhich are separated one from another by grooves a which extend from topto bottom of the said rib, iiange, or contracted portion ofthe throatorice or ou tlet of such bottle in such Vmanner that when a circularcork or stopper of ordinary form is inserted in the ordinary mannerinthat portion of the throat orifice or outlet of the bottle surrounded byand forming the passage through the serrated flange, such grooves willstill be only partially closed, so that the liquid in the bottle willleak through the same when the bottle is inverted.

In the main or enlarged port-ion B of the throat orifice or outlet ofthe bottle, is preferably located an inwardly extending annular rib orprojection b, which extends into such th roat orifice or outlet a littleless than the depth to which the lugs o extend over the same, and thisribbis preferably situated but a short distance below ythe serratedflange formed by the said lugs d, so that when the expansible seal isinserted in the bottle the center of the sides thereof will be adjacentto such rib, and such seal will be expanded therein, so as to form atight joint thereon as shown in'dotted lines in Fig. l, and in someinstances it may be preferable to have the rib b, situated so far belowthe serrated top flange that the seal when inserted, will be whollybetween such flange and such rib, as shown in Fig. 5, and in such caseif preferred, such rib may extend as far inward into the throat orificeor outlet as does the serrated top ange, and when so extended it is ofneces-v sity, in order to prevent closure of the bottle by the insertionof acork long enoughto pass down by the same, of the s'ame serrated formas is the top ange, consisting in such case of a series of lugs b',separated one from another' by suitable grooves a.

The stopper or seal R designed to be used with my improved form ofbottle is of well known form, being a thin disk of any suitable.expansible material, preferably india- IOC rubber, and the same isinserted in the bottle, as shown in Fig. 3, preferably by being placedin a tube C the bottom end of which is of such size as to be insertedwithin the outlet orifice surrounded by the serrated flange formed bythe lugs a and grooves a', from which tube such seal is forced into theexpanded portion B of the throat orifice or outlet of my improvedbottle, by a plunger C', reciprocating in such tube C, said tube lasbeen inserted in the bottle, as shown in As will be seen by anexamination of Fig. 2, in which the circular dotted line denotes thearea in cross-section of the main portion of the throat orifice oroutlet of the bottle lying below the serrated flange, the grooves alying between the lugs a, do not extend fully into the flange to theentire` depth thereof,- whereby that portion of the under side of theflange lying nearest to the wall of the main portion of the throatorifice or outlet forms a circular unbroken seat for the ex-` pansibleseal R when the same has been' `or other efervescent liquids, forcontaining which the same is more particularly designed e to be used.

It is not my intention to confine myself strictly to the exact form ofconstructionl shown, as it will be seen that the number, shape andposition of the lugs a and also of the lugs b', may be greatly variedwithout departing from the scope of my invention, and I consider thesame to consist broadly of a bottle having a series of lugs project# inginward over the throat orifice oroutlet thereof, and springing at thebase from acircular unbroken seal-seat, such lugs and seat being;`formed integral with the bottle neck, and being adapted to hold inposition be neath them an expansible seal of substantially` the formshown, lin `such manner as to tightlyseal the bottle, said lugs being ofsuch form as to at the same time prevent theclosing of the bottle by theinsertion therein of a cork of ordinary circular form when once theexpansible seal has been removed.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my saidinvention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

l. In a bottle, the combination with` a ser ratedflange orrib providedwith a series of lugs a projecting inward over the throat orifice oroutlet in such manner as to receive and retain beneath the same asuitable seal for closing the bottle, of an annular rib b projectinginward into such throat orifice below the serrated flange, substantiallyas shown and described.

v2. A bottle havingtwo` serrated flanges or `ribs projecting inward intothe throat orifice or outlet thereof so as to receive and retain in thespace between them a suitable seal, vsubstantially as shown anddescribed.

3. The combination, with a bottle, having two serrated flanges or ribsprojecting inward into the throat orifice or outlet thereof, of a Sealof expansible materallying in the space between the two flanges in suchmanner as to be retained therein by the same so as to close the bottle,substantially as shown and described.

4. In a bottle, the combination with a flange projecting inward over thethroat orifice or outletthereof and forming a circular unbrokenseal-seat, of a series of lugs or projections a springing at the basefrom such' flange and also projecting inward overthe throat orifice oroutlet of the bottle, the seal-seat and projections being formedintegral with the bottle-neck, substantially as shown and described.

5. The combination, with a bottle, havmg a flangeprojecting inward overthe throat ori- 'fice or outlet thereof and forming aV circular`unbroken-seal-seat, which flange is provided with a series of lugs orprojections @springing at the base from such flange and alsoprojecting-inward over the throat orifice or=out let, of a seal ofexpansible material forced beneath and expanded below the lugs orprojections a so as to close the bottle by` pressing against the -sealseat, substantially as shown and described.

6. In a bottle, the combination with a serrated flange or rib having aseries of lugs a `projecting inward over the throat orifice or outletinsuch manner as to receive and retain beneath the same a suitable sealfor closing-thebottle, ofa circular unbroken sealseat located betweenthe bases'of the projections a and the wall of the throat orifice oroutlet and formed by the under side of the flange bearing suchprojections, audanannular rib b projecting inwardinto such throatorifice or outletbelow the flange forlning'the seal-seat, substantiallyas shown `and described.

In testimony of which invention I havehere-` unto set my hand. j p jFREDERICK E. BLAISDELL'. Witnesses:

FRANK S. BUssER,

HERBERT A. HALL.

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